When you look at all US presidents and their stock market performance, you might think of more modern times, when the market surged under Barack Obama as the country emerged from the Great Recession ...

There was a commander-in-chief who believed in such a model for government. His name was Calvin Coolidge. In many ways Coolidge didn’t seem like a man who would one day become president. He gained the ...

In Mobile, people went bananas for bananas that came in on ships from far-flung places, creating jobs for the Port of Mobile.

The first time Calvin Coolidge met Gutzon Borglum, the president agreed to the artist's scheme to mint commemorative coins. With the coins, Borglum hoped to raise funds to carve a mountain into ...

Wheeler for his running mate? Surely no one can have forgotten the slogan that carried the day, “Keep cool with Coolidge.” Calvin Coolidge will forget neither these things, nor many more ...

Calvin Coolidge’s initial presidential inauguration will forever be unique in American history. He was vice president and vacationing at his father’s home in Vermont. Upon learning of the ...

She was once a student a Calvin Coolidge Elementary, but for the past 8 years, she's returned as a 4th grade teacher.

Obama would be the first sitting U.S. president—Jimmy Carter visited in 2011—to visit Cuba since Calvin Coolidge attended the Pan American Conference in Havana in January 1928. It was a time ...

Davis, Dartmouth Librarian Edward Connery Lathem, and Vermont Historic Sites Chairman Vrest Orton founded The Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation. The museum also serves as a tribute to Plymouth ...

In 1923, Vice President Calvin Coolidge was sworn in after President William G. Harding died in office. Coolidge inherited many of Harding’s scandals, which he was able to handle with considerable ...

Many contemporary conservatives adopt cope-hope tropes that they hope seem bold enough to attract an audience. One of these is praise of Calvin Coolidge for doing nothing but reducing government, but ...

Coolidge believed the nation needed fewer, not more, programs regardless of their purpose. Calvin Coolidge was not a forceful leader in matters of foreign affairs and often deferred to his ...